NOTICES
HEALTH CARE COST CONTAINMENT COUNCIL
Special Reports and Requests for Data
[52 Pa.B. 1551]
[Saturday, March 12, 2022]The Health Care Cost Containment Council (Council), according to the act of July 8, 1986 (P.L. 408, No. 89), as re-enacted and amended by the act of July 17, 2003 (P.L. 31, No. 14) and the act of June 10, 2009 (P.L. 10, No. 3), is required to publish a list of all special reports and data that have been prepared during the previous calendar year. The following represents a summary of the reports and requests for data generated by the Council in calendar year 2021. The list of data fields that are included in the standard public use files are located in PDF files posted on the Council's web site at www.phc4.org (select ''Services,'' then ''Data Requests''). Questions about procedures for obtaining access to Council data should be addressed to JoAnne Z. Nelson, Supervisor of Special Requests, Health Care Cost Containment Council, 225 Market Street, Suite 400, Harrisburg, PA 17101, (717) 232-6787, jnelson@phc4.org.
Applicant and Project Description
Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality—Rachel Lipari, PhD
Statewide 2020 inpatient discharge and inpatient revenue code detail datasets and 2019 ambulatory/outpatient procedure and ambulatory/outpatient revenue code detail datasets with derived data fields (number of days to admission, days to procedure and age). The data will be used in the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), which uses the data for multiple databases (State Inpatient Databases, State Ambulatory Surgery and Services Databases, National Inpatient Sample, Kids' Inpatient Database Nationwide Readmissions Database, and Nationwide Ambulatory Surgery Sample), reports, and tools and products. The HCUP databases enable research on a broad range of health policy issues, including cost and quality of health services, medical practice patterns, access to health care programs, and outcomes of treatments at the National, regional, state and local levels.
Allegheny County Health Department—LuAnn Brink, PhD, MPH
Standard regional 2020 inpatient discharge dataset for Region 1 to be used for public health surveillance, identify high risk groups within Allegheny County and study preventable hospitalizations, nonfatal injuries, including falls and motor vehicle crashes, and acute outcomes that may be associated with environmental quality, including asthma and cardiovascular events.
Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc.—Danielle Dials
A custom 2017 through 2020 inpatient discharge data report to be combined with other states data to support development of a utilization rate for therapeutic cardiac catheterization services on West Virginia residents. Results will be used in a certificate of need application submittal and shared with respective attorneys and consultants supporting the initiative.
Brian Rucco
Standard fourth quarter 2019 regional inpatient discharge dataset for Region 7 and Statewide inpatient revenue code detail dataset to be used to provide empirically based analyses and fact based institutions into patient populations and health care provider performances in Eastern Pennsylvania regions to enhance curriculum development for public administration high school and community college students.
Bryn Mawr Surgery Center—Karla German
Standard regional fourth quarter 2018 through third quarter 2020 inpatient discharge and ambulatory/outpatient procedure datasets for Regions 8-9 to be used through products developed by their contractor, ValueHealth, for market research of care to gain a better insight into their market and effect more focused physician engagement.
Cancer Study Group—Alexa Slotkoff
Standard facility and regional 2019 inpatient discharge dataset for six hospitals and Region 9 to link with public and ICD-10-PCS and ICD_10-CM datasets as well as American Hospital Association database to use for consulting. Specifically, to research the volume of cancer-related surgeries to determine which academic centers in this Commonwealth perform the highest volume of complex cancer surgeries.
Capital Health—Jeremye Cohen
Standard regional first and second quarter 2020 inpatient discharge and ambulatory/outpatient procedure datasets for Regions 8-9 to use for planning purposes for their health system to assist in determining public demand.
Constitution Surgery Alliance—Marc Fortier
Standard Statewide 2019 inpatient discharge, ambulatory/outpatient procedure and inpatient and ambulatory/outpatient revenue code detail datasets and financial data to be used for a Constitution Health and Outcome Measures Program that will develop Patient Reported Outcomes Measures and benchmark utilization and efficiency of ambulatory surgery centers to assist in improving their quality and efficiency at their ambulatory surgery centers.
Crozer Keystone Health System—William G. Nestor, III, JD, MBA, HCCP/Paul Casbergue
Standard Statewide 2018 through 2020 inpatient discharge, ambulatory/outpatient procedure and ambulatory/outpatient revenue code detail datasets and 2019 through 2020 inpatient revenue code detail datasets used to support the development and improve access and the quality of care to the community through market assessments and community needs analyses.
Deborah Heart and Lung Center—Thomas Percello
Custom 2018 through 2020 inpatient discharge dataset of patients who reside in New Jersey to be generated into summary level reports by their consultant, O'Conco Healthcare, to analyze utilization and market share by service line.
Drexel University Dornsifes School of Public Health—Irene Headen, PhD, MS
A custom 2003 through second quarter 2020 inpatient discharge dataset of delivery related procedures during 2003 through 2018 within the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area linked with the Pennsylvania Department of Health birth certificate data and 1 year readmission records with derived data fields (number of days to admission and number of readmissions). The data will be linked with neighborhood indicators data from Drexel University Urban Health Collaborative to be used for a research study entitled, Neighborhood Opportunity and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Maternal Morbidity. The study will investigate the association between neighborhood opportunity access—a multi-domain measure of women's social, physical and service environment—as an understudied multilevel factor in relation to racial/ethnic disparities in maternal morbidity.
Evangelical Community Hospital—Nicole Lohr
A 2020 custom inpatient discharge dataset of Regions 4-5 cases with a derived data field (number of days from prior discharge) and standard regional ambulatory/outpatient procedure dataset for Regions 4 and 5 to be used to conduct an internal study of Evangelical Community Hospital's market share and gain a better understanding of the population it serves.
Excela Health—Allison Lutz
Standard Statewide 2020 and first quarter 2021 inpatient discharge, ambulatory/outpatient procedure and inpatient and ambulatory/outpatient revenue code detail datasets, prepared by their consultant, Intalere, will be used to develop reports for Excela Health to examine state, county and hospitals inpatient and outpatient market share.
Geisinger Health System—Jennifer Goff/Rachel Manotti
Standard Statewide 2020 and first quarter 2021 inpatient discharge and ambulatory/outpatient procedure datasets will be used for market demand, market share, patient origin, payer mix and distribution, patient demographics, diagnosis/procedure distribution, facility and physician profile and distribution and trend analysis.
Highmark Health—Daniel Loschiavo
Standard Statewide 2020 inpatient discharge, ambulatory/outpatient procedure and inpatient and ambulatory/outpatient revenue code detail datasets to be used for ongoing operational analysis and planning purposes. Highmark Health will perform analyses of hospitals and surgery centers in western and central Pennsylvania with respect to issues including service offerings, payer mix, patient travel patterns, facility service areas, provider market shares and trends; and analyses of hospital capacity and utilization, bed counts, revenues and costs and trends. The analyses will relate to regulatory compliance and integrated health care delivery network and financing system efforts to evaluate hospital competition, further develop Allegheny Health Network and offer high-value insurance products.
Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania—Graycen Hunt
A 2020 custom inpatient discharge readmission analysis data report of hospitals' 7-day and 30-day rates, a custom Statewide inpatient discharge dataset with a derived data field (number of days from prior discharge) and a standard inpatient revenue detail dataset. The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) will use the data to conduct ongoing monitoring of statewide, regional and hospital-specific quality outcomes. HAP may, from time to time, release the aggregate results of its quality monitoring research. The readmission analysis data will be used for HAP's Hospital Improvement Innovation Network and future Network of Quality Improvement and Innovation work through Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania—Sari Siegel, PhD
Standard Statewide 2020 financial data report and 2018 through 2019 restated financial data report to be used by the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) to conduct ongoing monitoring of statewide, regional and hospital-specific financial information and outcomes. HAP may, from time to time, release aggregate results of its monitoring research and they intend to use analysis of the information for member research.
Hunterdon Healthcare—Kim Tennant
A custom 2017 through 2020 inpatient discharge dataset of patients who reside in New Jersey and hospitalized in Region 7, 8 or 9 to be used to help better serve the needs of their community providing quality cost effective health care services in their service area population.
IBM/Truven Health Analytics—Kayla Blanchard/Rolando Rodriguez
Standard Statewide second and third quarter 2020 inpatient discharge and ambulatory/outpatient procedure datasets. IBM will process, standardize and distribute different types of data and statistical analyses to its clients (hospitals, health networks, government agencies, health care providers, payers, consultants, vendors, researchers and the like) through proprietary decision tools, benchmark databases, research, custom studies and other associated products by Internet or PC/CD based, which provide utilization market share, service demand, outcome indicators, assistance in resource allocation and in evaluating benefit plans.
Inspira Health Network—Aileen Seigfried
Standard regional 2016 through 2020 inpatient discharge datasets for Regions 8-9 to be used for market share analysis prepared by their consultant, Advisory Board. The Advisory Board will merge the Pennsylvania data with New Jersey state data admission data to analyze demand by service lines from patients that reside in Inspira Health Network's market.
Jian Strategic Marketing—Heidi Orie
Standard second quarter 2020 through first quarter 2021 Statewide inpatient discharge datasets and regional ambulatory/outpatient procedure datasets for Regions 1—7 to be used to analyze trends in the market for non-profit health care providers. The data will be used for consulting purposes to help guide marketing and communication tactic to providers and consumers.
Lehigh Valley Health Network—Vanessa J. Villaverde
Standard Statewide 2020 and first quarter 2021 inpatient discharge and ambulatory/outpatient procedure datasets to be used for service area analyses, competitive analyses, product line trends and analyses and incidence rate comparisons and trends for program development. The data will also be used for research population based health issues, to promote health and well-being of targeted vulnerable populations; internal quality control research; internal resource utilization research; support development of continuum of care research; community based health needs that target chronic illnesses.
LifePoint Health—Jeff Duncan
Standard Statewide third quarter 2019 through third quarter 2020 inpatient discharge datasets, prepared by their consultant, Trilliant Health, to help assess the opportunities and needs in areas that LifePoint Health hospitals operate in and will conduct analysis to help leaders in the company make decisions for the operations of the hospitals.
Main Line Health—Praveen Shanbhag
Standard second through fourth quarter 2020 Statewide inpatient discharge dataset and regional ambulatory/outpatient procedure dataset for Regions 8-9 to be used for market assessments, internal facility and service line planning purposes to evaluate consumer need and identify underserved geographic and clinical areas in Main Line Health's market.
Monongahela Valley Hospital—Patrick J. Alberts/Daniel F. Simmons
Standard regional 2020 and first quarter 2021 inpatient discharge and ambulatory/outpatient procedure datasets for Region 1 and Statewide inpatient and ambulatory/outpatient revenue code detail datasets to be used to analyze clinical data to identify gaps in services in order to offer new services to Monongahela Valley Hospital's community.
Mount Nittany Health—Alicia Grube
A custom third quarter 2017 through first quarter 2021 ambulatory/outpatient procedure dataset and 2020 inpatient discharge dataset of patients who reside in Blair, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Huntingdon or Mifflin Counties to be used for internal market share analysis.
National Board of Medical Examiners—Jonathan D. Rubright
Standard Statewide 2017 through 2019 inpatient discharges datasets will be merged with United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) historical files and American Medical Association Masterfile to be used for a study entitled, The Relationship Between Physician Licensure and Later Performance in Practice, to understand the relationship between quality of care metrics and performance on the USMLE.
Nemours/Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children—Stacey Milunsky
Custom 2015 through 2020 inpatient discharge dataset for obstetric delivery cases and a custom 2019 through 2020 inpatient discharge and ambulatory/outpatient procedure dataset for pediatric cases with an age group indicator to be used to understand the market forces to help support the development of strategic programs, services and new locations of care to better support the needs of the patients and communities Nemours/Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children serve.
New York University Grossman School of Medicine—Dr. George Thurston
Standard regional 2013 through 2019 inpatient discharges datasets for Regions 1 and 3 to be used for a study entitled, An Evaluation of the Health Impact of the Closure of a Coking Operation on Local Residents—An Interrupted Time Series Analysis, which will evaluate the health benefits of the reduction in air pollution by linking the data with air pollution measurements from the EPA Chemical Speciation Network and use an interrupted time-series analysis to evaluate the health effects of changes in ambient air pollution constituents on clinical outcomes.
North Pointe Surgery Center—Kaci Roberts
Standard 2019 through 2020 regional inpatient discharge and ambulatory/outpatient procedure datasets for Regions 5 and 7, Statewide inpatient and ambulatory/outpatient revenue code detail datasets and 2019 financial data report. These data will be developed into reports by North Pointe Surgery Center's contractor, Seisan, for them to utilize for strategic planning related to growth, recruitment, market share and addition of service lines over the next 5 years. With assistance from their contractor, TRUE Real Estate, they will use the data to understand their patient's demographics.
OSS Health—Tricia Wolf
Custom fourth quarter 2019 inpatient discharge and ambulatory/outpatient procedure Musculoskeletal related cases for patients who reside in Region 5 or, were treated at hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers in Region 5 to be used for studying Southwestern Pennsylvania Region 5 analysis of populations health/value-based musculoskeletal care. OSS Health will conduct a competitive research study and analysis of patient access, cost and outcomes of OSS Health's physicians, hospitals and ancillaries versus other health care networks in the similar service area.
Penn Highlands Healthcare—Gregory P. Bauer
Standard Statewide 2020 inpatient discharge, ambulatory/outpatient procedure and inpatient and ambulatory/outpatient revenue code detail datasets, prepared by Penn Highlands Healthcare's consultant, Intalere will use the data to develop market share reports for preparation of strategic plans as well as in the development of physician recruitment plans for Penn Highlands Healthcare.
Penn State College of Medicine—Chan Shen
Custom 2015 through 2018 inpatient discharge dataset, reuse 2011 through 2014 inpatient discharge dataset and a custom 2010 through 2020 inpatient discharge dataset of Pennsylvania adult resident cases from an acute care hospital with their 30-day readmission records through first quarter 2021 records with derived and indicator data fields (number of days to admission and readmission flag). The data will be used for a research study, Determinants of Readmissions Among Patients with and without Co-occurring Conditions, which will study trends and determinants of readmissions for hospitalized patients. Data analysis results will be used in some form of publication.
Penn State Hershey Health System—Veronica Barone/Joshua Campos
Standard Statewide 2020 inpatient discharge and ambulatory/outpatient procedure datasets, prepared by Penn State Hershey Health Systems consultant, Advisory Board Market Innovation Center, to provide them with analysis of utilization, disease and procedure incidence, market analysis and strategic planning for the improvement of health care services provided by Penn State Health. Reports created from the data may be shared with outside counsel/consultants as part of the strategic planning process.
Pennsylvania Department of Health—Brian Wright
Standard Statewide 2019 inpatient discharge dataset to be used for the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Office (PDMPO) and the Department of Drug and Alcohol Program (DDAP). The data will be used to fulfill grant requirements, monitor program progress, identify needs, evaluate the impact of drug overdose prevention activities and respond to requests for aggregate data. PDMPO and DDAP may use the data to produce ad-hoc aggregate drug-related reports such as, fact sheets or profiles of geographical areas to present to legislative members or the public, time series analysis to track health outcomes and measure program successes, data maps, dashboards and data requests.
PDMPO will create aggregated reports for the interactive data report and working with the University of Pittsburgh, data will be used for developing and executing a proposal for using analysis, statistics and machine learning techniques to identify at-risk patients and drug abuse and overdose patterns; produce an algorithm for determining the probability of prescription misuse and overdose events to produce notifications in the PDMPO system that assist health care providers in identifying patients at high-risk for substance misuse and overdose events and connect these patients with substance abuse treatment as needed; create localized ''heat maps'' and reports for county and municipal health departments; create reports designed for targeted naloxone distribution for the Pennsylvania Opioid Command Center; and evaluate the impact and effectiveness of overdose prevention activities. DDAP will report the number of opioid overdose-related hospital admissions for the Strategic Prevention Framework for Prescription Drugs grant.
Standard Statewide 2020 inpatient discharge dataset to be used for the Bureau of Health Promotion and Risk Reduction (BHPRR) Division of Violence Prevention Program and Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity programs and DDAP. BHPRR will use the data to help identify groups at high risk for injury, specific injury topics and identifying risk factors and effective injury prevention, planning and evaluation strategies; produce various injury reports, asthma related reports and burden of chronic disease reports; respond to requests for aggregate data pertaining to injury, chronic diseases, drug overdoses and the like; and disseminate in aggregate on the Departments of Health's EDDIE system and dashboard. DDAP will use the data to report the number of opioid overdose-related hospital admissions for Strategic-Prevention Framework for Prescription Drugs grant and create a final evaluation report for the grant and respond to requests for aggregate data. The data may be used to produce ad-hoc aggregate drug-related reports such as, fact sheets or profiles of geographical areas to present to legislative members or the public, time series analysis to track health outcomes and measure program successes, data maps, dashboards and data requests.
Custom 2016 through 2020 inpatient discharge data reports by age group and year to be used by the Division of Health Informatics for Healthy People 2030 objectives. The reports will help address required reporting requirements set by public health grants and funding proposals, track disparities between demographics, as used by the Office of Health Equity and to assess public health in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Department of Health—Carolyn Byrnes/Gina Wiser
Custom 2019 through first quarter 2021 inpatient discharge and ambulatory/outpatient procedure datasets with derived data fields (number of days to admission and days to death) for patients with a maternal-related death linked with the Pennsylvania Department of Health 2020 mortality data to be used to assist the Pennsylvania Maternal Mortality Review Committee identify medical records for women who died with a maternal-related death to better understand the issue of maternal mortality and to design and implement interventions to address the causes of maternal mortality.
Pennsylvania Department of Health—Christine Mulgrew, MPH, PhD
A custom 2019 through first quarter 2020 inpatient discharge and ambulatory/outpatient procedure dataset with indicator data fields (match method and procedure performed) for patients with colon surgical procedures linked with the Pennsylvania Department of Health's cohort file will be used to evaluate reporting accuracy and validity of colon surgical procedures that are eligible for infection monitoring according to National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) criteria and provide recommendations for improving reporting of procedures to NHSN.
Pennsylvania Department of Health—Sharon Watkins, PhD
A custom fourth quarter 2014 through first quarter 2021 inpatient discharge dataset with derived and indicator data fields (match, match method and number of days to admission) for patients with a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) diagnosis and their 5-year prior inpatient discharge records linked with the Pennsylvania Department of Health National Electronic Disease Surveillance System data for patients diagnosed with COVD-19. The data will be used to capture complete information for surveillance of COVID-19 in this Commonwealth to learn more about hospitalizations race, gender, length of stay and the like, which will provide crucial information to inform the Pennsylvania Department of Health's response to COVID-19 in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Department of Human Services—George Rhyne
Custom third quarter 2018 through second quarter 2019 inpatient discharge dataset from the corrected self-pay database and 2017 through 2019 financial data of the 3-year average percent of uncompensated care to be used to compute payments to hospitals for the Hospital Uncompensated Care and Extraordinary Expense programs established under the Tobacco Settlement Act of 2001.
Custom third quarter 2018 through second quarter 2019 inpatient discharge dataset of records with an MDC 14 or MDC 15 from general acute care hospitals to be used to calculate payments to disproportionate share hospitals under the Pennsylvania State Plan approved by CMS for obstetrical and neonate services.
Pennsylvania Department of Human Services—Mara Perez
Custom third quarter 2019 through second quarter 2020 inpatient discharge dataset of records with an MDC 14 or MDC 15 from general acute care hospitals to be used to calculate payments to disproportionate share hospitals under the Pennsylvania State Plan approved by CMS for obstetrical and neonate services.
Pennsylvania Department of Human Services—Michele Minter
A custom 2016 through 2019 financial data report of hospital's net patient revenue, days, discharges and visits distribution by payer to be used for the Statewide and Philadelphia Hospital Assessment programs.
Pennsylvania Department of the Auditor General—Jo Anne Walchak
Standard Statewide third quarter 2019 through second quarter 2020 inpatient discharge dataset to be used to review data that will be used to calculate Tobacco Settlement entitlements to hospitals in this Commonwealth prior to the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services' calculation of the payment amounts. The Pennsylvania Department of the Auditor General will review data that will be provided to the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services for use in making Uncompensated Care Tobacco Fund payments in 2022.
Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General—Tracy W. Wertz
Standard Statewide 2019 financial data report and 2020 inpatient discharge, ambulatory/outpatient procedure, inpatient revenue and ambulatory/outpatient revenue code detail datasets and financial data report to be used for review of hospital mergers to ensure that the mergers are in compliance with antitrust laws; and the information may be disclosed for official law enforcement purposes or disclosed in litigation related to Federal antitrust laws or other stated and Federal laws. These data may also be shared with the Federal Trade Commission or the United States Department of Justice to be used for investigations that are conducted jointly with the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General.
Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority—Shawn Kepner
A custom second through fourth quarter 2020 ambulatory/outpatient procedure data report on the number of surgical cases by surgery center per quarter to be used by the Patient Safety Authority (PSA) in combination with the PSA's PA-PSRS (medical error report) to calculate the rate of error reports per 100 surgical encounters for each facility for PSA to internally determine low-reporting facilities.
A custom second through fourth quarter 2020 inpatient discharge and ambulatory/outpatient procedure data report on the number of cases by hospital will be used in combination with the PSA's PA-PSRS data to produce facility specific and aggregate medical error rate data to improve PSA's analytic capabilities, thereby supporting PSA's overall mission.
Philadelphia Department of Public Health—Raynard Washington, PhD, MPH/Claire Newbern, PhD, MPH
Standard regional 2020 through first quarter 2021 inpatient discharge and ambulatory/outpatient procedure datasets for Regions 8-9 to be used for a variety of analyses that allow tracking of diseases. Data are used for the evaluation of trends in services, estimated cost and outcomes for several conditions (HIV, diabetes, asthma, hypertension, cancer screening, violence-related injuries, influenza-like illness, pelvic inflammatory disease, drug-related, and, if any, emerging infectious diseases and the like) as well as patient demographics for research and policy planning and the Philadelphia Community Health Needs Assessment. The data will be used to examine obstetrical services, high-risk pregnancies and ongoing research of birth outcomes and in needs assessment activities for both Health Start and Title V. Rates of adverse events in individuals receiving vaccinations and individuals not vaccinated will be examined. The data is also used to evaluate the HIV/AIDS surveillance system and as part of Ryan White Part A. Data will be used for descriptive analyses of visits for lead, vector or other environmental exposures. On occasion the results of the analyses may be shared with other city agencies and health advisory groups.
A custom 2013 through 2018 inpatient discharge dataset of patients who reside in Philadelphia County receiving care at a hospital within Region 8 or 9 linked with Pennsylvania Department of Health mortality and birth certificate data. The client will use the data to monitor outcomes of the opioid epidemic and maternal/infant outcomes, as well as, other public health needs. The risk of an overdose death among people with an opioid use disorder will be examined to see if certain factors associated with their hospital stay are associated with higher risk of death. Using information on the birth certificate differences in mom's prenatal care received will be examined between those with a diagnosis of opioid use disorder and those who did not. Maternal factors reported on the death certificate will be reviewed in relationship to infant outcomes such as neonatal abstinence syndrome, premature birth, or premature maternal death.
Philadelphia Inquirer—Dylan Purcell
Standard Statewide 2019 and 2020 inpatient discharge dataset to be used for general use in reporting news articles about Philadelphia-area hospitals.
Renzi Podiatry/Save Your Soles Campaign—Ronald M. Renzi, DPM
A custom 1990 through 2019 inpatient discharge and 1996 through 2019 ambulatory/outpatient procedure dataset for patients who reside in Regions 6—9 with a foot surgery; a custom 2006 through 2009 and 2017 through 2020 inpatient discharge and ambulatory/outpatient procedure dataset for patients with an amputation who reside in Regions 6—9; and a custom 2017 through 2019 inpatient discharge data report of the number of patients by gender and age group and the number of patients with an open or closed vascular surgery grouped by the number of hospitalizations. These data will be used for the Save Your Soles Campaign program sponsored by Abington Memorial Hospital Innovators Foundation, which is to reduce amputations in the Philadelphia area. Trends in amputations will be developed to identify a correlation between foot surgery procedures and amputation rates.
Sg2—Tanya Chin-Fatt
Standard Statewide second through fourth quarter 2020 inpatient discharge dataset will use the data in online platform applications and desktop tools and summary reports. The data will be used in Market Forecast and State Data Analysis Tool software that was developed to support Sg2's client hospitals' long and short term operational and strategic planning efforts. These tools enable their clients to develop 10-year health services demand forecasts by clinical area and geography, to provide them with the ability to project and meet future demands by determining the appropriate allocation of resources and to improve both the quality and availability of health care in the communities they serve. The tools containing this data will be accessible only by authorized users on a secure web-based portal, will be confidential and used only for Sg2's hospital and health system clients.
St. Clair Hospital—Reva Hunt
Standard Statewide 2018 through 2020 inpatient discharge, ambulatory/outpatient procedure and ambulatory/outpatient revenue code detail datasets to be used to determine the hospitals market share across service lines.
Stratasan, LLC—Jason Moore
Standard Statewide 2020 through first quarter 2021 inpatient discharge, ambulatory outpatient procedure and inpatient revenue code detail datasets to be used for market share analysis, product line performance and patient migration patterns. Stratasan will provide analytic services to their hospitals and health care system clients through the aggregation of the data within their multiple analytic software platforms and visualization tools.
Syntellis Performance Solutions, LLC—Erin Coppersmith
Standard Statewide 2019 inpatient discharge and inpatient revenue code detail datasets to be used with other states' data to help health-care providers increase the quality of care they provide to their patients by effectively benchmarking their quality, safety, satisfaction, cost and utilization of their peers. The data will be used for creating benchmarks at the APR-DRG and MS-DRG level accessible through files in conjunction with hospital client decision support systems and a web-based tool, Axiom Clinical Analytics for Healthcare.
Temple University Health System—Nicholas Barcellona
Standard Statewide 2017 through 2020 inpatient discharge datasets, prepared by their consultant, Intalere, Inc., will be used for ongoing analysis of market demand for various health care services and healthcare resource management.
Thomas Jefferson University—Tyler Grenda, MD, MS
Standard Statewide 2018 and 2019 inpatient discharges and ambulatory/outpatient procedure datasets will be used for a research study, Understanding Variations in Perioperative Care for Lung Cancer, Esophageal Cancer and Benign Esophageal Disease. The analyses performed using the data will result in peer-reviewed manuscripts focusing on quality and efficiency along the spectrum of care for patients with esophageal cancer, lung cancer and benign esophageal disease.
University of Pennsylvania—Michael J. Kallan, MS/Stephen E. Kimmel, MD
A custom 1999 through 2018 Statewide inpatient discharge dataset with a derived data field (number of days to admission) to be used for a study, Dynamic Prediction Modeling to Improve Clinical Predictions, which is to develop a novel framework for risk assessment that uses sequentially updated information across domains and time to refine prediction models.
University of Pennsylvania—School of Medicine—Laurie Norton, MA
A custom first quarter 2020 inpatient discharge dataset with derived and indicator data fields (number of days to admission, match method and rehab unit) linked with a cohort data file of participants in a randomized controlled trial study of patients at the University of Pennsylvania Health System with congestive heart failure (CHF). The data will be used for a study, RCT of Automated Hovering for Congestive Heart Failure Management, which will test the effectiveness of applying automated hovering to improve outcomes among CHF patients at high risk of readmission.
University of Pennsylvania—School of Nursing—Rachel Kelz, MD
Standard Statewide 2018 inpatient discharge dataset and re-use 2012 and 2017 inpatient discharge dataset will be used to continue their study, Surgical Provider Characteristics Using Patient Outcomes, which will identify provider factors that lead to variations in surgical patient outcomes across both inpatient and outpatient settings. The data will be combined with other states data and linked with the American Medical Association Masterfile from the American Medical Association and Hospital Compare from the CMS to gain a better understanding of the unique contributions of each provider characteristic that will assist providers with their quality improvement initiatives and hiring decisions. The association between provider characteristics (surgeon descriptors and residency program, hospital descriptors) and clinical outcomes (mortality, complications, prolonged length of stay and failure to rescue) will be evaluated as well as the association between provider characteristics and financial outcomes (length of stay, total cost of hospitalization and discharge status).
University of Pittsburgh—Mary Patricia Nowalk, PhD
A custom third quarter 2015 through third quarter 2018 inpatient discharge data reports by age groups, gender, race, insurance type and condition, which include Pennsylvania Department of Health mortality data to use for a research study entitled, Epidemiology, Burden and Cost of RSV Infection in Adults in Allegheny County, PA: A Retrospective Cohort Study, which will evaluate the epidemiology, burden of illness and cost of respiratory syncytial virus infection in adults over three seasons in Allegheny County, PA.
University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health—Christina Mair, PhD
Standard Statewide 2016 through 2020 inpatient discharge dataset and a custom 2017 through first quarter 2020 inpatient discharge dataset of mom delivery records in 2018 with an opioid use disorder at time of delivery with one-year prior and one-year post-delivery records. The data will be merged with US Census, SMSHA's Behavioral and Treatment Services Locator, WIC Clinic Locations and Pennsylvania Department of Human Services Medical marijuana dispensary locations to be used for a research study, Social Ecological Contexts of Opioid Overdose and Hospitalizations in Pennsylvania. The researchers will examine individual, social and spatial contexts of the opioid epidemic in this Commonwealth. Specifically, the data will be used to investigate the contextual factors impacting opioid-related hospitalizations and overdoses.
University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health—Lindsay Sabik, PhD
Standard Statewide 2010 through first quarter 2021 inpatient discharge dataset will be used for a study entitled, Impacts of Recent Payment, Coverage and Systems Changes on Patterns of Care Delivery and Disparities in Care, which will assess the impacts of recent health care provider payment, patient insurance coverage and health care systems changes on access to and quality of care in this Commonwealth, as well as how these changes have impacted disparities in care by race/ethnicity, geography and socioeconomic status. Further, research will be performed to understand how the unanticipated and unprecedented changes to care under COVID-19 impacted providers and patients and whether recent policy changes or hospital organizational characteristics mitigated the impact of COVID on facilities and their patients.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center—Matthew W. Michaels
Standard Statewide second quarter 2020 through first quarter 2021 inpatient discharge and ambulatory/outpatient procedure datasets to produce various research reports including: patient origin for University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) hospitals, UPMC market share in various geographies and for various service lines, utilization trends in volume and market share over different time periods and physician volumes at UPMC and other hospitals.
Veralon Partners, Inc.—Clare O'mara
A custom 2017 through 2020 ambulatory/outpatient procedure data report of cases by year, facility, zip code area and service to understand trends in outpatient utilization by service category for potential opportunities for Grand View Health and Doylestown Health to better serve the health care needs of their community.
Weill Cornell Medicine—Angelica Meinhofer, PhD
Standard Statewide 2005 through 2018 inpatient discharge datasets to be used for a study entitled, The Impact of State Policies for Reducing Drug Use, which the focus of the study is to estimate the impact of health and drug policies on maternal health behaviors, on infant health outcomes and health behaviors of other populations.
WellSpan Health—David Kimpel
Standard Statewide second quarter 2020 through first quarter 2021 inpatient discharge and ambulatory/outpatient procedure datasets to use for an internal assessment of the delivery of health care services within the region WellSpan Health serve and beyond for comparative purposes. Service area utilization of services and analysis are the primary purpose for them to obtain the data.
West Virginia University Medicine—Nancy Vest
Standard Statewide 2020 inpatient discharge dataset used to assess and analyze market conditions for West Virginia University Medicine's facilities located in this Commonwealth and bordering counties in this Commonwealth.
BARRY BUCKINGHAM,
Executive Director
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 22-398. Filed for public inspection March 11, 2022, 9:00 a.m.]
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